Large crowd gathers at U.S. Capitol building during World War 1 timeframe. Cars arrive at Capitol building. Henry Ford speaks with Speaker of the House, Congressman James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark. Thomas Edison with other dignitaries stand at the steps of the Capitol and Edison shakes hands with Congressman Clark. Montana Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (a suffrage movement leader and the first female congress representative), carries flowers in her hand at a peace rally. U.S. flag in the background. Mounted Police on horseback control crowd of anti-war marchers who are protesting involvement in World War I.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses those gathered during his nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Franklin Field near Philadelphia's Convention Hall. Brief excerpt at start of clip with Senator Burton K. Wheeler from Montana addressing the convention. Posters of Presidential candidate Roosevelt and vice-presidential candidate John Nance Garner. Garner seated beside Roosevelt as the President speaks. Roosevelt speaks of the value of divine justice which weighs the sins of the cold blooded and the warm hearted in different scales. He extols a government of charity over a government of indifference. Crowd cheers and claps to the words of the President.
Senate Majority Leader Ernest W. McFarland administers an oath of office to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, and other Senators in Washington DC in United States. Senator McFarland congratulates the Senators after the oath taking.
Golf scenes on the course of The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Players including celebrities present for the reopening of the resort after its closure during World War 2. Four players stand together in front of the golf country club building then known as "The Casino." They include Railway industrialist Robert R. Young (host of the event), British filmmaker J Arthur Rank (a then business partner of Robert Young in their Eagle-Lion Films endeavor), Britain's Duke of Windsor, and former U.S. Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. Several scenes of the four men playing golf, including shots with the Duke of Windsor putting, with pipe in mouth, and J. Arthur Rank putting on the green.
An automobile on a road and sunset in the background. Cactus in the desert. Mobilgas sign. Men in large office building. Fence along a country road. Fence along a beach front. New York city skyline at sunset with traffic light. The Club Butte in Butte, Montana at sunset. Pounding waves on beach at sunset. Palm trees at sunset. Molten metal is poured at a foundry. Oil pumps and oil derricks at sunset. Smoke stacks at sunset. A person exits a mobile home at an RV park at sunset. Apartments with TV antennas seen along with an elevated railroad train at sunset. Highway and traffic scenes at sunset.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry Leseur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Foreign Policy in the Pacific and Formosa (Taiwan).